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Sir Richard Branson’s private space tourism company Virgin Galactic Inc. started its trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) via a direct listing at $12.10 on Monday under the ticker “SPCE”.The move comes after the Galactic merged with Chamath Palihapitiya’s venture Social Capital Hedosophia that gave the new company a combined valuation of $1.5 billion. Branson kept a 51% stake in the business.CEO George Whitesides said:“Virgin Galactic is making history again today as it becomes the...

On Friday, an American automotive and energy giant Tesla announced it had rolled out a new version of its solar roof tile for use at residential homes, V3 Solar Roof. According to Elon Musk, installations will begin in the upcoming weeks, with 1,000 new roofs expected to be produced per week.Tesla first came up with their Solar Roof Tiles in 2017, and the volume production was set to start in 2018. However, the process turned out to be quite slow, and the production was delayed until this...

Ark Investment Management founder and CEO Catherine Wood commented that huge jump in Tesla’s stocks that began yesterday after the company released its earnings is just “the beginning of an eventual rise to $4,000 per share and possibly beyond.”And she might be right, because, even though the earnings were nothing special, they were still better-than-expected and at the stock ended yesterday trading with a rise of 17.67% to $299.68. However, at the time of writing, the stock was in a slight...

According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, there’s a good enough chance that the company could grant limited access for some of its customers to a “feature complete” product which will have full self-driving (FSD) capabilities, before the end of 2019. Musk, during a Tesla earnings call yesterday, suggested that it would be a type of beta test, carefully carried out to further the company’s move on autonomous capabilities. He, however, added that the release is “not for sure” and even though it...

This year, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), an American company that provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 16 million people throughout a 70,000-square mile service area in northern and central California, declared their bankruptcy and admitted their blame on a number of forest fires and problems with power.Recently, during the California Public Utilities Commission meeting, the company’s CEO Bill Johnson stated that California can expect blackouts for the next...

The race for the space business is getting intense as big organizations are spending billions of dollars in creating the infrastructure for space tourism. While we have frequently heard Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Jess Bezos’ Blue Origin working on the plan, Richard Branson’s space tourism venture Virgin Galactic has pulled the rabbit out of the hat.Virgin Galactic is all set to become the first company in the space tourism to go public. During a recent interview with the CNBC, we heard this...

SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk, together with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, have said that by the first quarter of next year, Space X will complete the development to a considerable extent and will begin initial test flights for the Crew Dragon spaceship.According to Bridenstine, this will definitely happen as long as there are no unforeseen circumstances with the project’s redesigned parachutes and its emergency systems, between now and the first quarter of next year when the launch...

Recently we reported that Electrek, a blog for electric vehicle enthusiasts, published an email that probably has leaked from the company in which Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk writes that Tesla might be able to make 100,000 vehicle deliveries in the third quarter, which would be a record.Be it as it may, Tesla is really trying to fulfill these expectations but with only a day left, some sources say that the company is currently “a few thousand” cars short of the delivery goal.In the leaked email,...

On Thursday, Tesla rolled out its new software update with a whole lot of new features for its Model S, Model X, and Model 3 owners in the U.S.Among other features, you can find in-car karaoke, entertainment services like Netflix and Hulu, and a feature (for really lazy ones) that lets customers call their cars like they’re summoning a dog – no driver required.Of course, customers who paid for the Full Self-Driving option are higher up on Tesla’s list of priorities, and for them, there will...

Photo: yuga.ruBillboards are usually used as an ad, announcement for different happenings, commercial for stores, etc. Rarely, they can be used as messaging boards to someone you know. We were witnessing some political parties with their messages inviting the local community to vote for them, we even witnessed proposals. However, the crew from Russian Kuban region had something else in mind – and boy, was it original.They decided to invite a famous entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk to...